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I'd like to thank SpaceX for posting this on Facebook.
http://www.theonion.com/articles/distant...med,35179/
Ha!
Quote:In an effort to allay its deep-seated fears of human habitation, WR 67c said it often reminds itself that its surface is constantly ravaged by devastating asteroid impacts and is perpetually showered by corrosive rains of pure sulfuric acid. However, because it occupies what Earth scientists have dubbed the habitable zone of its nearby star, the planet confessed that it often succumbs to sudden panic attacks in which it becomes intensely paranoid that it is developing liquid water on its crust.
An apt reminder that simply being in the HZ doesn't imply habitability...